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Mao

Categorie	Geschiedenis Azië
Boeknummer	#377491-VB52
Titel	Mao
Auteur	Spence, Jonathan D.
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Jaar van uitgave	1999
ISBN10	0297643479
ISBN13	9780297643470
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original blue boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, 8vo.
Samenvatting	In this dazzling blend of history, literature and politics, the world's pre-eminent historian of China, gets to the heart of the complex personality of Chairman Mao Zedong. Steeped in Chinese politics and culture, Spence penetrates Mao's rhetoric and infamous self-will to distil an intimate portrait of a man as withdrawn and mysterious as the emperors he disdained. How did this farm boy from the remote Hunan province, with a haphazard education and unexceptional talents, evolve from a rebel youth cutting off his braided queue and refusing the 'legalized rape' of a bourgeois marriage to the Iron hand that devastated millions for so long? Spence masterfully illuminates a man who, at a watershed moment in history, turned the classic Chinese concept of reform through reversal into an endless a... (Lees verder)dventure in upheaval and examines why he is still remembered with hate, awe and even reverence.
Pagina's	205
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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